Mental training in surgical education: A randomized controlled trial

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 245, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 385-391

  Immenroth, Marc ^a   Bürger, Thomas ^a   Brenner, Jürgen ^a   Nagelschmidt, Manfred ^c   Eberspächer, Hans ^b   Troidl, Hans ^c  

^a ETHICON INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL TRAINING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TRAINING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ATTENTION; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; SURGERY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TEACHING;

EID: 34247616461     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000251575.95171.b3     Document Type: Article

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